Description

The
getservent_r(),
getservbyname_r(),
and
getservbyport_r()
functions are the reentrant equivalents of, respectively,
getservent(3),
getservbyname(3),
and
getservbyport(3).
They differ in the way that the
servent
structure is returned,
and in the function calling signature and return value.
This manual page describes just the differences from
the nonreentrant functions.

Instead of returning a pointer to a statically allocated
servent
structure as the function result,
these functions copy the structure into the location pointed to by
result_buf.

The
buf
array is used to store the string fields pointed to by the returned
servent
structure.
(The nonreentrant functions allocate these strings in static storage.)
The size of this array is specified in
buflen.
If
buf
is too small, the call fails with the error
ERANGE,
and the caller must try again with a larger buffer.
(A buffer of length 1024 bytes should be sufficient for most applications.)

If the function call successfully obtains a service record, then
*result
is set pointing to
result_buf;
otherwise,
*result
is set to NULL.

Return Value

On success, these functions return 0.
On error, they return one of the positive error numbers listed in errors.

On error, record not found
(getservbyname_r(),
getservbyport_r()),
or end of input
(getservent_r())
result
is set to NULL.

Errors

ENOENT

(getservent_r())
No more records in database.

ERANGE

buf
is too small.
Try again with a larger buffer
(and increased
buflen).

Conforming To

These functions are GNU extensions.
Functions with similar names exist on some other systems,
though typically with different calling signatures.

Example

The program below uses
getservbyport_r()
to retrieve the service record for the port and protocol named
in its first command-line argument.
If a third (integer) command-line argument is supplied,
it is used as the initial value for
buflen;
if
getservbyport_r()
fails with the error
ERANGE,
the program retries with larger buffer sizes.
The following shell session shows a couple of sample runs:

See Also

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License & Copyright

Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
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